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Monday, July 31, 2017

President
Maithripala Sirisena and prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe have met
at the home of finance and media minister Mangala Samaraweera and
discussed at length how to solve conflicts of opinion between the two
main affiliate parties of the government, reliable sources say.

They stressed the importance of facing collectively the challenges
before the government. The president raised with the PM the criticism of
the SLFP by UNP general secretary Kabir Hashim and other ministers.
During his visit to Bangladesh, the president inquired from minister
Malik Samarawickrema about Hashim’s critical remarks at the opening of
an office of Kolonnawa UNP organizer S.M. Marikkar.

Also, media has reported that a majority in the UNP has taken strong
reservations to SLFP minister Dilan Perera’s having seriously criticized
the UNP’s conduct. The two leaders agreed to make sure that such
contradictory situations would not occur in the future, the sources add.

They also decided to be firm with regard to strikes and other acts of
sabotage by the joint opposition and to create a new public confidence
on the government. They also agreed to discuss with relevant state
institutions how to speed up investigations into fraud, corruption and
crime as promised to the public when forming the government on 08
January 2015.